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If a country were at war and knew that one-third of its population were certain to perish in the next ten years, its leaders would most likely declare a state of emergency and commit every resource at their command to averting that outcome.

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Which male child will perish a new day?

We do biology, we do hardware, and Nicholas Negroponte famously said, "Demo or die," as opposed to "Publish or perish," which was the traditional academic way of thinking.

In this phase, roughly 50 percent of those who reach the surf will perish.

But that fact wasn't always obvious, because if a heart was exposed or taken out, the body would perish quickly.

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